[mythtv-users] Recordings to DVD

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Greg wrote:

> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>> Greg wrote:
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>>> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>>> Thomas Börkel wrote:
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>>>>> HI!
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>>>>> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>>>>>> Is there some way to automatically master recordings (done in 
>>>>>>> MPEG2) to DVD? Possibly with generated menus? I know, there is a 
>>>>>>> plugin for VDR which does this, but I don't know about MythTV.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been looking at doing it but have kind of put it on hold 
>>>>>> till the MPEG2 to MPEG2 commercial cut code is up to snuff.  I 
>>>>>> don't see much 
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>>>>> What exactly is broken there? Is there a time frame when it will 
>>>>> be fixed?
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>>>> Video artifacts, and audio sync issues following cutpoints come to 
>>>> mind.  I believe I saw that someone was working on it.  The 
>>>> original author is pressed for time right now so if he has to fix 
>>>> it it'll be months from now.
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>>>> Personally, I'm less and less interested in archiving to video DVDs 
>>>> and more interested in archiving MPEG4 content to backup DVDs so I 
>>>> can fit several shows on one disk. 
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>>> Would be nice if transcoding mpeg2 converted it to a portable mpeg4, 
>>> so that I could burning them on a CD/DVD if I decided to.. Mind you 
>>> I can do that manually, so I guess if I need to bad enough, just 
>>> would be nice to have that built in...
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>> Myth has transcoded from MPEG2 to MPEG4 for quite some time now...  
>> MPlayer seems to play them fine. 
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> I've know that Myth has be able to transcode from MPEG2 to MPEG4 for a 
> while now, but I am not able to play transcode files in Mplayer. This 
> morning I attempted to play a transcode MPEG4 file in Mplayer and Xine 
> to see if something changed, but I am still unable to play the file. I 
> remember the patch for Mplayer that allow this.... If there is 
> something I'm missing I'd sure like to know it.... =_)


Odd, I tried the same experiment earlier and had no issues...